Occupying a triangle between Plaza de Cascorro and Puerta de Toledo, this is where you can pick up anything from a pair of castanets to a lampshade.
Back in Brooklyn, the architects' most memorable single house is the mansion they built in 1891 for George P. Tangeman at 276 Berkeley Place, between Plaza Street and Eighth Avenue.
But it could profoundly affect a visitor's experience by creating the need for a wall running more than 200 feet along the Greenwich Street side of the memorial, marking an abrupt grade change between plaza level and sidewalk.
La Buena Vida Urban Café (Calle San Juan 39) is one of the most stylish hangouts, playing anything from jazz to electronic music to a young crowd, while Cervecería El Morito (Calle Sombrerería 27), between Plaza Mayor and the cathedral, is a local institution offering traditional tapas and raciones.
Although housing projects and graffiti dominate some parts of Calle Orizaba in Roma, there is a leafy stretch between two plazas that is an oasis of European grandeur.
E-ZPass came to the Garden State Parkway at staggered times in recent months because its tolls are fixed at 25 or 35 cents between toll plazas.
The potential applications multiply: what if state policemen in the United States rigged E-ZPass machines to calculate average highway speeds between toll plazas -- something easily doable with today's machinery -- and to automatically ticket cars that exceed 65 m.p.h.? There is a case to be made that only a citizenry of spoiled brats would fret over such things.
Anti-bullet train signs adorned flat fields the whole way, in between gas plazas, abandoned shacks, fast food clusters and teeny parched towns with paper-thin dwellings right out of The Grapes of Wrath.
Green Line: Trains will share a track between L'Enfant Plaza and Navy Yard to allow crews to install equipment to support cell service in the tunnels.
The 7 line, which ran on a regular schedule last weekend, will not run between Queensboro Plaza and Times Square on Saturday, with regular service resuming after 8 a.m.
